Sport climber Alannah Yip knows all about problem solving
Alannah Yip is 5 feet 5 and spindly. She has muscular shoulders and arms and her legs are a mass of bruises from climbing rock wallsThe 30-year-old from Vancouver is Canada’s top women’s sport climber and finished 14th in the combined event at the Tokyo Games. She currently competes on the International Federation of Sport Climbing tour and has her eyes set on returning to the Olympics in Paris in 2024.
A self-professed nerd, Yip has a mechanical-engineering degree from the University of British Columbia. Her area of specialty is mechatronics, which heavily involves robotics, and she says that helps her understand angles and more quickly unlock the puzzles necessary to clamber up walls. She began climbing as a young girl after watching a close family friend, Sean McColl, whom she looked upon as an older sibling, do the same. McColl was Canada’s male representative in Tokyo.She is currently competing in the lead competition at the IFSC world championships in Bern, Switzerland and, provided Yip reaches the Olympics again, she will likely retire professionally afterward.
She spent this spring travelling on the IFSC circuit, which began with an event in Japan in April, and has also included competitions in South Korea, Salt Lake City, Italy and Austria.
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